Drusilla had left off her pretty blue petticoat and white short gown
now, and was dressed in gold-flowered satin, with an immense train,
which two pages bore for her when she walked. Her pretty hair was
combed high and powdered, and she wore a comb of gold and pearls in
it. She looked very lovely, but she also looked very sad. She could
not help thinking, even in the midst of all this splendor, of her dear
father, and her own home, and wishing to see them.
She was a very apt pupil. Her tatting collars were the admiration of
the whole seminary, and she made herself a whole dress of rick-rack.
She painted a charming umbrella stand for the King, and actually
worked the gold-horned cow in Kensington stitch, on a blue satin tidy,
for the Queen. It was so natural that she wept over it, herself, when
it was finished; but the Queen was delighted, and put it on her best
stuffed rocking-chair in her parlor, and would run and throw it back
every time the King sat down there, for fear he would lean his head
against it and soil it.
Drusilla also worked an elegant banner of old gold satin, with
hollyhocks, for the King to carry at the head of his troops when he
went to battle; also a hat-band for the Prince of Egypt. This last was
sent by a special courier with a large escort, and the Prince sent an
exquisite shopping-bag of real alligator's skin to Drusilla in return.
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